The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-09-02
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EDITORIAL.


We we're greatly Mortified with the
report from Little Rock, Arkansas,
headed, "a War" Trouble between
the whites and the blacks resulting in
death and general confusion. distruc.
ton of property and armed bands
opposing each other in war-like array,
seems to have been, the order of the
day-the 26th. What the final result
will be cannot now be told although
the cause which lead to the trouble
originally was inconsiderable, and Of
mean Importance. The probability
is that the Governor will order the
State militia to the scene of trouble
and by their presence future calamity
may be prevented. But however soon
the war may be ended, however early
the armed forces may be compelled to
disband and return to their homes.
the blood stains of strife cannot be
wiped out and the bodies of those who
now sleep in death, whose life was
blessing and whose fortune was public
favor will be forever missed. No
adjustment can repay, no peace can
reimburse the loss to society growing
out of disorder, or restore the life
dear and property valuable which has
been destroyed in the unfortunate con-
hict.
How sad these occurrences, vet,
how easily are they brought about and
how easily and certainly could they
be avoided-only let the people be
educated. Not only as most ofthem
are. in the A, B., c., Of school train
ing, but in those higher branches of
moral instruction which teaches men
to properly respect the rights and
claims Of others and to be governed
by right reason rather than by pref
udice and passion.
We have great reason to consider
ourselves. (who live in North Car
olina) as most fortunate and we have
greater reason to regard our condition
ofquiet and general citizenship as the
result of proper training. No where
in the Union are people more general
~ peaceable. Every man, either from
his own sense of justice and fair deal
ing or by reason Of the restraining
influence of good and righteous
laws, practically respects the rights
Of every other of his fellow citizens.
Law is respected and. year by year
our people, trained in the church and
school, have become more and more
enlightened and more and more will
lingly and perfectly subject to the
powers that be-" But, with all this.
the restless natures of some will of
course be dissatisfied, and, in their
dissatisfaction, they will long for new
scenes, new places, other occupations.
new homes. Some are anxious to leave
the Old North State and try their for
tunes to make. in other lands. A
year o. so ago, agents were sent out
from this very State, Arkansas, soil
citing emigrsnts from other States
and succeeded in procuring from
North Carolina about one thousand
of the dissatisfied and curious, at one
time, to embark. Some Of these very
creatures may have been involved in !
the late trouble an account of which
now crowds the news columns of
almost every paper in the land and
fills the mind and heart of many a
reader thereof with reflections both.
sad and serious. These disturbances
which come in upon the wire from
other quarters should heighten our
of our own old quiet
nome and should strengthen our love